Forget ABC Amber Sony Converter. It just does a really poor job of converting. No graphics, no styles. Just dreadful. The author said when it first came out that he would be shortly fixing these issues. And has he? Nope. Well, the price was right. But I was hoping that it would preserve any covers and illustrations in the .lrf file.

The best idea is to use one of the various LRF to LRS converters and then write a program to convert the LRS into HTML. Hmmm. My problem is that my current programming skills are with COBOL and S/390 Assembler. Neither of them seem particularly friendly to massaging text. I've been resisting learning Java, but maybe this would be a stimulus.

Actually, if you learn Python, you can add lrs2html as part of Calibre.

Elsi: I have used the ABC Amber products for quite a while (both the free and the purchase variety) and I find them very good. Jon's dislike of all things ABC Amber is well established. Scholars differ. Your mileage may vary.

My wife is an accomplished needleworker, sewer, and quilter so Did conversions of several needlework books for her some time ago. Their functionality on the Sony is dreadful. The graphics are too small to provide guidance and as Patricia noted often several pages removed from the related text. Even when moved next to the text it often required page-up/page-down operations to go from the text to the graphic. Additionally, the graphics did not have enough resolution when viewed on the Sony to make them easy to understand. For these reasons I never posted the books here.

OK, it's time to pay my rent around here. I will try to do a nice Canterbury Tales. TRY is the operative word.

Don't hold me to it, because I might fail. But I'll try. It might take a long while, since it will have to be an "at-home" project.

Wish me luck?

Thanks!

Hmmm. My problem is that my current programming skills are with COBOL and S/390 Assembler. Neither of them seem particularly friendly to massaging text. I've been resisting learning Java, but maybe this would be a stimulus.
You would do better to explore Perl and Python.
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Dennis

I've updated J. A. Mitchell's The Last American with an illustrated version using images from a PDF at Google Books. The PRC version includes correct diacritical marks while the LRF and IMP versions do not because the fonts are not supported.

I'm a bit worn tuckered out from making books right now and I think I'll take the rest of the summer off. In the fall, I'm planning to redo the Einstein title that I botched in December and try a few other math and physics titles. I'd love to hear some suggestions about putting equations into an LRF, at least. If I have to use images captured from a math equation editor I will but it would be great to avoid that.

I'm also toying with a larger project. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/cwmg.html), as it's called, is a massive thing containing all of his correspondence, journals, publications, and speeches translated into English by the Indian government. It contains about 50,000 pages in about 100 volumes. Much of it is in the public domain in the U.S. and all of it will be so in India on January 1, 2009. I've been reading the PDFs of these on my Reader and noting the particularly interesting portions. I may put these portions together into a collection and post it in January if I determine that to be legal to do and if I can find the time to do it.

Keep posting great books!

Uploaded new versions (Sony and MobiPocket) of all six of Jane Austen's major novels with greatly improved covers. Many thanks to Paul Durrant for creating these.

The novels are:

- Emma
- Mansfield Park
- Northanger Abbey
- Persuasion
- Pride and Prejudice
- Sense and Sensibility

I'm in a "classics" frame of mind today. Posted two new books - a very good English translation of Apollonius of Rhodes' "Argonautica" (the famous epic poem telling the story of "Jason and the Argonauts" and their quest to find the Golden Fleece), and a commentary on Homer's "Odyssey".

I'm working on an EPUB edition of Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt.

HarryT uploaded some Anna Katherine Green a year or so ago, and I rather liked it. So I've converted a few more, and hope to add the available remaining novels in the next few days.

At first sight these mysteries seem to involve high-minded women and courteous gentlemen solving puzzles with great politeness. Then, after a while, one begins to realise that Mrs Green is quietly drawing attention to the fact that women are decidedly marginalised in late 19thC America. The lady detective, Violet Strange, has to keep her profession quiet, otherwise her father will disown her and she will lose her position in Society. Miss Amelia Butterworth is seen as an old maid and her amateur status is repeatedly contrasted with the professional detective, Mr Gryce. And there are women who have to endure husbands with gambling addictions, drink problems, and duplicitous tendencies. Altogether, unless she has an independent income, female happiness is precarious and dependant on male goodwill.

Posted an English translation of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" based on an illustrated HTML edition recently posted to PG. Versions posted for Sony and MobiPocket.

That's it for now with the Edgar Wallace books; the half dozen or so I've uploaded over the last couple of days have brought us up to date with all that have currently been released. Obviously I'll do others as and when they are released.

With the five books I've posted today, that's currently it for the available books by "Sapper", the pseudonym used by the British author Herman Cyril McNeile, one of the most popular and successful British authors of the 1920s and 30s. More to come as and when they are released.